March 3, 2016

9 Good CD and DVD Burning Tools for Ubuntu/Linux

here is no dearth of good CD/DVD
burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu
and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect
from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the
alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good CD/DVD burning
applications available for Linux(in no particular order). Read on.

K3B - KDE Burning Tool

K3B
has been my favorite CD/DVD burning tool ever since I started using
Ubuntu some 4 years ago. K3B is a Qt based application and it might look
a bit out of place in Ubuntu GNOME desktop. But from a functionality
point of view K3B is far ahead of all its competitors.

GnomeBaker is a free and open source
CD/DVD authoring application for Linux. It is based on GNOME desktop
environment. GnomeBaker comes equipped with functionalities like: Drag
and drop to create data CDs (including drag and drop to and from the
Nautilus file manager), Create audio CDs from existing WAV, MP3, FLAC,
and Ogg files etc.

If you are an Ubuntu user, you
don't need any introduction to Brasero Disc Burner since it comes as a
default application in Ubuntu. Supports features like on-the-fly
burning, multi-session, on-the-fly conversion of music playlists in all
formats supported by GStreamer and so on. Brasero is my second favorite
Burn tool available for Linux.

Before getting excited, let me make it
clear. ImgBurn is not an open source application and there is no
official package for Linux as well. But ImgBurn is among the few
applications which runs neatly under Wine and that is exactly why it is
included in this official listing of Wine supported applications.

SimpleBurn
is a minimalistic application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs.
SimpleBurn was designed to have minimal dependencies. It uses GTK2 libs
for the interface for burning it uses CDRTools (cdrecord, cdda2wav,
mkisofs) or CDRKit (wodim, icedax, genisoimage).

Installation
in Ubuntu is a bit complicated since there are no DEB packages
available AFAIK. You can compile and install SimpleBurn instead.
Instructions here.

InfraRecorder for Windows

Although InfraRecorder does not belong
to this list since it does not have a Linux version, it is a widely
acclaimed open source CD/DVD burning tool for Microsoft Windows licensed
under GNU General Public License. In 2007, CNET rated InfraRecorder the best free alternative to commercial DVD burning software.

CDRDAO(CD
recording Disk At Once) is an open source CD burner application for
Windows, Mac and Linux. CDRDAO records audio or data CD-Rs in
disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD
contents. The CDRDAO application is run from the command line and has no
graphical user interface.